UU (Unitarian Universalism) would also agree that there is one Truth, but it would add that different people approach/encounter/understand that one Truth in different ways. However, having said that, UU would also say that the best way to manifest this one Truth is to act wisely and compassionately towards others. UU would argue that what a person intellectually believes about the universe and humanity is not as important as how a person acts and behaves towards others.
source: Proverbs 14:12
Having doubts from time to time is, I would say, quite normal but I don’t think there are good grounds for you seriously to doubt your Church. As an informed Catholic you have every reason to reject the “Unitarian” philosophy and “Universalism” presents no problems, either, since you can happily remain a Catholic yet hold on to the hope that all will be saved in the end.
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It’s an organization for avoiding all objectivity and discomfort while strolling merrily down the wide road to perdition that Christ warned about. Narrow is the way, not anything goes. Also, they do not behave like Fred Phelp’s crazies: If you let them wrap their tentacles around you, your own polite nature will make it very difficult to extricate yourself. Run, and don’t look back.
I think in some respects Unitarian Universalism resembles Judaism, in particular the less orthodox and more liberal varieties such as Humanistic Judaism and Reform Judaism, but even Torah Judaism. First of all, the belief in the Unity of G-d rather than the Trinity. But more than that, the fact that both are orthoprax religions rather than orthodox ones, in which the practice of moral values is more important than belief in a strict creed (perhaps also true in Hinduism and Quakerism). I’m not saying they’re identical, for there are surely essential beliefs in Judaism that cannot be ignored; however, I find certain similarities.
Protestants usually post something like this “God judges the heart”. That is what this sounds like.
Here is an actual quote to that effect.
I don’t know much about UU, frankly, but it’s far too ‘loose’ for my taste in its positions on values and practices (e.g., homosexuality, liturgy). It might seem open-minded to you, but in my opinion, UU usurps the Biblical example for absolute tolerance. I don’t have to accept homosexual unions to be respectful towards gay individuals. Furthermore, from the Church’s perspective UU has crossed a couple of boundaries.
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of James 2:17 “Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”
Catholics don’t believe God judges one’s “heart” or essense?
I think what Coptic is getting at is that some people throw in the “God judges the heart” card as a subtle way of saying “God knows my heart, so I must be correct and you’re wrong”.
Oh ok. Thanks. I’ve just never taken it that way I guess. When I see/hear people saying that, I just assume what they are saying is, it is only God and us, at the moment of our final breaths, who will know our hearts. And only He Whom shall judge based on the heart, the essence and understanding within us. I guess I just don’t read more into it than that though.
It’s just been my experience that when I encounter someone who claims to be of the same path as I am, only to find out that they don’t exactly live up to everything that is expected of that path(especially when it comes to ethics and morals). When I point out that the Catholic Church teachings expect us to live to a higher standard, that is the common response. So to me its like saying “Well, that’s your opinion and I’m right because God knows my heart”. Which is true, God does know our hearts. I just don’t think it should be used as a copout to walking the walk.